⁵ And Simon answered, “Master, ^(A)we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.”

¹⁴ You are ^(A)my friends ^(B)if you do what I command you.

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

⁴ Then he said to me, ^(A)“Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, ^(B)O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. ⁵ Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause ^(C)breath^[a] to enter you, and you shall live. ^6 (D)And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and ^(E)cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, ^(F)and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

⁷ So I prophesied ^(G)as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, ^(H)a rattling,^[b] and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

Build Your House on the Rock

^46 (A)“Why ^(B)do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? ^47 (C)Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: ⁴⁸ he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.^[a]

³ Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but ^(A)that night they caught nothing.

¹¹ Then he said to me, ^(A)“Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and ^(B)our hope is lost; ^(C)we are indeed cut off.’ ¹² Therefore ^(D)prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^(E)I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And ^(F)I will bring you into the land of Israel.

Unless the Lord Builds the House

A Song of ^(A)Ascents. Of Solomon.

¹⁰ And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, ^(A)“Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.” ¹¹ But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper. ¹² Are not Abana^[a] and Pharpar, the rivers of ^(B)Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. ¹³ But his servants came near and said to him, ^(C)“My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” ¹⁴ So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, ^(D)and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, ^(E)and he was clean.